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Katie Clark is originally from Colorado and currently lives in Utah with her husband and son. She writes primarily for Smart Phone Health Care, but contributes to several Health Care Scene blogs, including EMR Thoughts, EMR and EHR, and EMR and HIPAA. She enjoys learning about Health IT and mHealth, and finding ways to improve her own health along the way.

An estimated 14 percent of medical records contain incorrect patient information. Because of this, deadly errors can occur. In an effort to cut back on these errors, HIMSS is trying to implement a national patient identifier system. A single identifier isn’t going to solve problems, but it’s a step in the right direction.

In this interview, Dr. Nick discusses an important string of acquisitions by Nuance. This is an interesting move by Nuance and Dr. Nick does a good job of describing the vision of Nuance going forward with these acquisitions and their view of how healthcare documentation will happen in the future.

It has been a really busy week for Allscripts. First came the news that Allscripts was considering a sell to a Private Equity Buyer. This news is harder to read since it could mean a big sell or it could just be posturing. In what I think is even bigger news is that Allscripts is discontinuing their MyWay EHR. This is a big move on Allscripts part. It’s a necessary decision by Allscripts because they have too many EHR software to manage, but it’s going to leave a lot of doctors and a lot of VARs scrambling.

We’ll be writing some more pieces soon on the members of Congress that are calling for a halt on the HITECH Act and payment of EHR incentives. However, this was HIMSS’ response to the request to halt EHR incentive payments. It’s not a surprising response, but I do like the data that HIMSS provides to the conversation. Most people see this move as a political one, and not necessarily one that puts the HITECH EHR incentives at risk.

Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Bam Labs was recently interviewed over at Hospital EMR and EHR. BAM Labs created the Smart Bed, a mat that is placed under a person’s mattress that can measure heart rate, breathing rate, and motion. Pittock discusses how it was created, the accuracy of it, and how providers can interact with the data.

If you have plans to attend Health 2.0 next week, be sure to bring along any old smartphones. Health eVillages will take the device and load onto it different medical materials and sent to doctors that are in third world countries. There are sites for Health eVillage in the countries of Haiti, China, Kenya, and Uganda, with plans to expand to more.

There are many mHealth creations coming out at a rapid pace. At first glance, these innovations seem incredible and life-changing. However, without supporting documents and proof of the effectiveness, the money and time that goes into implementing certain technologies might not be worth it. This post talks about a home monitor for CHF, and although it’s a great idea, unless a patient is really dedicated to following all the alerts, it may not be effective. Technology needs to be reliable and proven to work before it should be recommended for use.

Many children get ear infections, and it’s no fun taking them to the doctor if the diagnosis of one is uncertain. Luckily, a new tool has been invented to help parents and physicians diagnose from home. The tool is a detachable clip that turns a smart phone into otoscope, and parents can take a picture of their child’s eardrum to send to their physician for further analysis.

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